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Robert 'Wingnut' Weaver has a ready smile and is probably best known for his star billing in the now classic surf movie Endless Summer II. Wingnut was actually born in Germany (I'm guessing to a military family) and then at age 3 moved with his family to Newport Beach, California. It wasn't until he was 16 that he began surfing and was dubbed "Wingnut" by the older locals probably because of his sticky-out ears. From day one Wingnut was a longboarder and he has never waivered in his love for and commitment to longboard surfing.

The Seaxe is difficult to pigeonhole, it's not a longboard and is definitely not a mini mal, it sits somewhere in the 'crossover' category of surfboards an often overlooked part of the quiver.

The sheer level of detail that Wingnut has brought to the Seaxe will soon convince you that this no ordinary 'mid-length', it is in fact a high-performance surfboard with a finely foiled nose and tail and manages to hide quite a bit of volume in the performance rail line. The bottom shape has an almost flat entry that flows into a bellied V that then runs out through the tail. The key to the Seaxe's manoeuvrability is the beautifully curvy rocker which gives the board a lot of versatility and performance in really decent surf, whilst still happy cruising and drawing clean lines on smaller and mellower days.

This is the kind of board you keep for ever, you build a relationship with by surfing it every day, in all conditions, big, small, choppy or clean....your go-to board that you grab every time it's on.

Firewire's Timbertek construction combines a lightweight EPS core with sustainably-grown wood deck skins, along with Firewire's proven parabolic rail construction giving them an addictive 'pop' and return. Finished with a hot coat of Entropy bio-resin, creating an extremely lightweight and durable surfboard with ALL of the high performance flex traits of Firewire's existing technologies. Realistically the Seaxe was never going to be made in any other construction, the beautiful Paulownia wood laminates along with it's significantly reduced carbon footprint add the finishing touch to what is surely a Firewire X Wingnut classic.

Boardshop is a premier Firewire surfboard stockist and a key partner for Firewire across Europe and around the globe. Boardshop brings you the very latest Firewire models as soon as they land in the UK and aims to give you the very best information and feedback based on our own experiences and that of our loyal customers across the globe. We carry the largest selection of Firewire surfboards anywhere in Europe, if we don't have it...we can probably get it within a couple of hours!

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Surfed my new seaXe this morning in 4-5ft clean surf . Normally i ride a 9,1 mal so wasn't sure what to expect.
Paddles like a long board, duckdives like a short board ( a bonus ha ).
So responsive, i had it on quad fin
setup. Cant remember having so much fun throwing a board about and getting so many turns in. Overall brilliant!! Really happy with it.
Anybody that rides a longboard in decent surf will love the thing.
Thanks boardshop.co.uk.

Rode my 7'6" sea axe for first time this weekend in glassy chest high surf at Cape Hatteras. I bought the board with the intention of it being my "crowd tamer" allowing me to catch a lot of waves on crowded and/or mushy days. I have a 7 ft board with the same thickness and width as the SeaAxe and figured it could really help my wave numbers. Surprisingly, the extra 6 inches didn't seem to help as much as I anticipated in the numbers game, but I was blown away with how fast and maneveurable the board was for a 7'6". It has a lot less rocker than my other boards, and just takes off on a clean face. Light, responsive, fun to surf. So I don't think Its going fill the niche I originally planned for it,as well as I hoped, but am more than impressed with its performance and am very happy I bought it. Should be a great all purpose board.

Got my hands on it about six months ago and after some very good sessions i can tell you the Seaxe is a great board. It flies on the face of the wave, get speed very quickly and it is very agile because of the thin tail rails. I ride it with an 8' single fin, on the front foot and turning only with rails and it's abslolutly stunning.
If you like the single fin style of surf on a shorter board than a log...it's the one for you. Thanks Boardshop !

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